Adrienne L. McLean
Associate Professor

Office:  JO 5.606
Phone:  972-883-2755
Email:  amclean@utdallas.edu
Website:  http://www.utdallas.edu/~amclean/

Areas of Specialization:  
Film history and theory; women and film; classical Hollywood cinema; television history; stars and star images; dance history.

Education: 
Ph.D., Emory University, 1994, Film Studies and American Studies.  
M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, 1981, Dance.

Recent Publications: 

Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2008).

Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom (Rutgers University Press, 2004; second printing 2005).

Headline Hollywood: A Century of Film Scandal (co-ed. David Cook) (Rutgers University Press, 2001).

Work in Progress:

Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema, series eds. Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance (Rutgers University Press). Nine volumes contracted 2006.
 
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

"Wedding Bells Ring, Storks Are Expected, the Rumors Aren't True, Divorce Is the Only Answer: Stardom and Fan-Magazine Family Life in 1950s Hollywood." In A Family Affair, Murray Pomerance, ed. (London: Wallflower Press, forthcoming).

"1958: Movies and Allegories of Ambivalence." In American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations, Murray Pomerance, ed. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005).

"'New Films in Story Form':  Movie Story Magazines and Spectatorship," Cinema journal (2003).  

"Media Effects: Marshall McLuhan, Television Culture, and 'The X-Files,'" in Horace Newcomb, ed., Television:  The Critical View, 6th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Film Quarterly (1998). 

"The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole," in Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film, Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement (2004).

"The Cinderella Princess and the Instrument of Evil: Surveying the Limits of Female Transgression in Two Postwar Hollywood Scandals," Cinema Journal (1995). 

"'I'm a Cansino': Transformation, Ethnicity, and Authenticity in the Construction of Rita Hayworth, American Love Goddess," The Journal of Film and Video (1993).